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Legendary songwriter Neil Young has unveiled the tracklisting for his forthcoming solo album, which will be released on September 27th.

Our latest Soundbites sees Carl Barat discussing the secrets behind The Libertines reconciliation, yet more Neil Young albums are set to be unleashed, one of this year’s Mercury Prize hopefuls talk of their nomination, while U2 sort out one of those pesky, interfering football teams. We also look at an unlikely online director for Arcade Fire, another UK festival confirms it’s line-up and there’s news of a new home for next year’s Brit Awards.

U2 guitarist The Edge has spoken of his excitement at their upcoming headline slot at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, after admitting he had previously been sceptical about the annual event.

Speaking in The Times newspaper, he said: “If we don’t do it now, we never will. I’m going along to check it out as much as anything but I have a good feeling about it. I’d like to hope we can make our mark.”

Blur’s triumphant headline spot at this year’s Glastonbury Festival has been voted the Best Headline Performance at this year’s UK Festival Awards.

The band, who reformed for a series of gigs in the summer, produced one of the best performances of their career when they played a hit-laden, crowd pleasing set on the closing night of the festival. Other memorable headline appearances at Glastonbury from veterans Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen saw Glastonbury 2009 pick up the Best Major Festival award.

“Rock stars should quit before they’re 40.” So said Noel Gallagher, not long after Oasis first burst onto the music scene in 1994.  Should Noel and men like him have followed their advice and got out while they were still at their peak or do they remain a relevant force to this day?

When the Sex Pistols careered into people’s living rooms on the night of December 1st 1976, when they appeared on Bill Grundy’s Today programme using some choice language, they epitomised the anger being felt by their contemporaries. It was an anger and resentment that was channelled perfectly into their one and only studio album, ‘Never Mind The Bollocks…Here’s The Sex Pistols’. Bringing punk to the wider public’s attention, it generated love and hate in equal measure, virtually overnight the band were the most notorious rock stars in Britain. Their story was a short-lived one however, and after sending shock-waves through their homeland with their debut release, the band would split just a few months later, ending with Lydon slumped on a stage in the US asking the crowd: “ever feel like you’ve been cheated?” Certainly no music fan felt cheated, they had entered in a blaze of glory, delivered an album of immense quality and importance, then they were gone, almost as quickly as they came. For twenty years they remained untouchable, the consummate example of the advantages of a band which gets out while they’re at their peak. That was, before lures of a comeback proved too hard to resist, and they entered into the other side of the debate.

Neil Young & Paul McCartney A Day In The Life Live From Hyde Park 27th June 2009